Henan will plan to build a new courtyard of Henan Museum at a high level, experts: it will become another new cultural landmark in Henan

Elephant News reporter Wang Shaoqing

"Walking in Henan and understanding China", you may wish to start with the museum. A few days ago, the 2022 Henan Provincial Culture and Tourism Work Conference was held, arranging the deployment of key tasks in 2022, and clearly proposing to plan the construction of a new institute of the Henan Museum at a high level, accelerate the construction progress of the Yellow River National Museum, and build Zhengzhou's "Hundred Museums" and Luoyang's "Oriental Museum Capital", and carry out active display and figurative dissemination in an all-round and category manner. What is the significance of the high-level planning and construction of the new henan museum for Henan? In this regard, the reporter conducted an interview.

Five of the six central provinces have built new museums

If you want to understand the history and culture of each place, the best way is to go to the local museum and get a glimpse of the history and cultural spirit of the place through the cultural relics. Founded in 1927, the Henan Museum is one of the earliest museums in the mainland, with a collection of more than 170,000 cultural relics, which is not only a cultural and artistic treasure house to witness the development trajectory of Chinese civilization and show the context of China's historical development, but also the best window to understand Henan.

At the 2022 Henan Provincial Culture and Tourism Work Conference held recently, it was clearly proposed that the new Henan Museum will be planned and built at a high level.

After the release of this news, it has received a lot of attention and expectations. The Henan Museum on Zhengzhou Agricultural Road was completed and opened in 1998 and has been around for more than 20 years. Before Henan, five provinces in the six central provinces, including Shanxi, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and Hunan, built museums (courtyards) and new museums (courtyards). As a major province of cultural relics, Henan also urgently needs to accelerate the construction of the new courtyard of henan museum.

The reporter noted that in November 2019, the General Office of the Henan Provincial Government issued the "Implementation Plan for strengthening the Reform of the Protection and Utilization of Cultural Relics in Henan Province", proposing to promote the construction of the new courtyard of the Henan Museum.

In the view of relevant industry insiders, the current old museum area of Henan Museum is only 55,000 square meters, the carrying capacity of the museum is far from meeting the needs of the public to visit, with the construction of new museums in various provinces, it is imminent to accelerate the construction of the new courtyard of Henan Museum.

After the completion of the new provincial museum, Henan will add new cultural landmarks

In the view of Zhang Yuxia, an associate researcher at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences, the high-level planning for the construction of the new henan museum and the acceleration of the construction progress of the Yellow River National Museum fully show that Henan has paid more attention to the construction of the museum. With the improvement of people's living material conditions, people's pursuit of cultural spirit is becoming more and more intense, and museums play an important role in social development as an important gathering place for cultural resources, historical relics and traditional literary and artistic products. For some time, the masses have a new understanding of the museum, and more and more people are willing to enter the museum.

"In recent years, museums around the world have used their own resources to launch unique and wonderful activities, a series of cultural and creative products continue to go out of the circle, we are pleased to see more and more young people fall in love with museums, but also in love with traditional culture." More and more people recognize the social value of museums, especially the value of museums in the construction of urban culture. We have a lot of adjectives for museums, such as museums are 'eyes of the city', 'heart of the city', which fully illustrates the importance of museums to urban culture, which is one of the signs of the prosperity of urban culture. ”

The museum is not only the spiritual symbol of a city, but also a window to show the context of the city, but also a business card of the city's culture, and more importantly, a cultural landmark of the city. "A lot of people come to a city, and the museum is definitely an important punch card for them, and he can see the history and excellent culture of a city through the museum." At the same time, the museum is also a response to the level of urban cultural construction, each museum collection resources are relatively rich, the development and utilization of collection resources support the sustainable development of urban cultural construction. ”

Zhang Yuxia told reporters that after hearing the news that the new courtyard of the Henan Museum is about to start construction, the most is to expect, "It will definitely become another new cultural landmark in Henan." Speaking of the future, Zhang Yuxia hopes that in the future, a number of private museums with different categories and unique characteristics can be built, so that private collectors can display more collections to better enrich the cultural needs of citizens.

Will build Zhengzhou "Hundred Museums" and Luoyang "Oriental Museum Capital"

In addition to the high-level planning and construction of the new Henan Museum and the acceleration of the construction progress of the Yellow River National Museum, Henan will also accelerate the construction of the museum group, build Zhengzhou", "Hundred Museums" and Luoyang "Oriental Museum Capital", all-round, categorical live display, figurative dissemination.

The reporter learned from the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism that Henan will shape the brand system of "walking Henan and reading China". Led by museums, with the new courtyard of Henan Museum, the Yellow River National Museum, and the new courtyard of Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology as the leader, we will accelerate the construction of key projects such as Zhengzhou Shangdu Ruins Museum, Dahe Village Yangshao Cultural Museum, Kaifeng Chengxicheng Ruins Museum, Yellow River Hanging River Cultural Exhibition Hall, Zhouqiao Ruins Museum, Sui and Tang Grand Canal Cultural Museum, Hanwei Luoyang City Ruins Museum, Chinese Character Museum Phase II, and Anyang Yin Ruins Museum.

In this regard, Zhang Yuxia said that there must be several factors in the construction of the museum group, first of all, there must be a certain number of museums, relatively concentrated in a region, to build a state-owned museum as the guide, in addition to non-state-owned museums, more professional museums as a supplement to the main body of pluralism, structural optimization, regional cultural characteristics, full of vitality of the museum system.

The reporter learned that Luoyang took the lead in proposing the construction of an "Oriental Museum Capital". At present, there are a total of 102 museums and memorial halls in Luoyang, an increase of 42 compared with the early period of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", which basically formed a museum system with rich connotations, distinctive characteristics and diverse categories. Among them, there are 49 state-owned museums and memorials, and 53 non-state-owned museums and memorials.

This year, the Sui and Tang Grand Canal Culture Museum and the Peony Museum will open to welcome the museum, the Luoyang Ancient Art Museum is being upgraded, and a number of new museums will be unveiled to continue to polish the shining business card of "Oriental Museum Capital".

"Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Kaifeng are all ancient capitals of a thousand-year-old civilization and have a rich history and culture, and Henan's construction of museum groups has certain advantages and a certain foundation." Zhang Yuxia said that the Henan Museum and the Luoyang Museum are very important museums, and their influence is also very high, and last year they were listed on the list of the top 100 national hot search museums in the second quarter of 2021. "It is believed that with the new courtyard of Henan Museum, the Yellow River National Museum, and the new courtyard of Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology as the guide, we can build a museum system with complete types and diversified characteristics."